We're expecting a house full of guests for about a week during the holidays and we've been thinking a lot about preparing our computers for guest use. We use our computer for everything and of course we don't mind if our guests want to use it as well during their stay. But that doesn't mean we're not taking a very simple precautionary measure to protect our personal information, especially after this week's big news about passwords and privacy.

We've had our share of roommates crashing our computer and not giving a darn about it; we also had to share a family computer with our nosy siblings while growing up — we don't want to relive any of those situations so we're taking extra precautions to keep ourselves safe (from a meltdown or an embarrassing situation).

We'll set up a welcome home screen as well (a good Google search will result in plenty of welcoming images, or make your own!), that way it'll break the ice of them feeling uncomfortable about using someone else's computer. We will also include the password to our router, should they want to access the internet through their phones.

All in all, we think that setting up a guest account will make the visit run more smoothly. The last thing we want is for anyone to feel uncomfortable — we want everyone to feel at home, even if that means making our computer as comfortable as possible too!